• cRazi_man@lemm.ee
      64·
      6 months ago

      I have no idea what I’ve missed… Till I go to someone’s house and watch raw YouTube and it’s unbearable.

    • AnxiousDuck@feddit.it
      361·
      6 months ago

      TIL about SponsorBlock and DeArrow, just wow!

      This line from the website made my day: There are currently 452.934 users who have submitted 17.125.673 skip segments, which have saved a total of 4185 years and 4.84 days of people’s lives.

      • Baguette@lemm.ee
        24·
        6 months ago

        I forgot that periods are used in some places instead of commas for thousands and was wondering how you could get 0.934 of a person

        For some reason though its written as 4.84 instead which I thought should be written as 4,84?

        • AnxiousDuck@feddit.it
          2·
          6 months ago

          DeArrow is an open source browser extension for crowdsourcing better titles and thumbnails on YouTube. The goal is to make titles accurate and reduce sensationalism. No more arrows, ridiculous faces, and no more clickbait.

  • Mac@mander.xyz
    53·
    6 months ago

    I do appreciate when they put actual effot in but with Sponsorblock i rarely see them. This meme still applies for when they get passed sponsorblock though lol

        • Classy@sh.itjust.works
          12·
          6 months ago

          We will dive into the history of this franchise, but fir—
          The franchise began in 1967, when…

          Me:

      • WDX@feddit.de
        8·
        6 months ago

        On that note… Also take a look at DeArrow

        https://dearrow.ajay.app/

        Same dev as SponsorBlock, same concept, just for YT Titles and thumbnails.

        Users can submit titles that better describe the contents and pick a neutral thumbnail.

        • Mac@mander.xyz
          3·
          6 months ago

          i also have DeArrow and it’s such a subtle change that you don’t even realize until you’re browsing the Tube on another device. Hoooly shit. i could feel the pressure from all the clickbait.

      • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        Don’t forget to upvote good segments and downvote bad ones. Segments that are downvoted enough get hidden or removed. That’s a pretty big part of how they prevent malicious people (possibly with outside instances) from trying to sabotage the network

  • valkyre09@lemmy.world
    25·
    6 months ago

    Did you guys know if you VPN through Albania, you don’t see YouTube adverts?

    I sure as hell didn’t until a few weeks ago.

    Anyway, do whatever you want to with this information :)

    • mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      14·
      6 months ago

      Insurance company : Oh you paid for insurance but we won’t cover your costs

      Finally claims insurance after months of waiting

      Hospital : You have an insurance so the bill is 8x higher but no you don’t need to pay all of them half is paid by insurance not you only have to pay 4x the money without insurance

      • Wilzax@lemmy.world
        6·
        6 months ago

        but you have to pay the full amount anyway and go through insurance because you have a deductible that needs to be met because your annual physical isn’t supposed to happen until November when you get time off around Thanksgiving but you don’t want to have to pay the full non-insured price of this and not count it to your deductible when you KNOW that you’ll have to pay the full cost of that primary care visit and your 45-year-old colonoscopy coming up and everything is terrible.

  • perishthethought@lemm.eeEnglish
    243·
    6 months ago

    Personally, nope. I’m still annoyed. But yes, thanks for trying to make the ads amusing or whatever, YTers.

  • CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml
    14·
    6 months ago

    The sponsor ads work when they’re neatly aligned aligned with the video’s concept. It wouldn’t budge me to see a manufacturer sponsor a PC build video where one of their products are being used. Or channels like GradeA where they advertise the sponsors in a similar way to their vids.

    What breaks it is when you can feel the ad clearly feels like a last minute insert (which it feels like almost all the time). Even the bigger creators out there do this.

    • God_Is_Love@reddthat.com
      2·
      6 months ago

      They are so genuinely funny and I watch them both because of that and because I’m happy he’s able to make a living from his material!

  • olicvb@lemmy.caEnglish
    10·
    6 months ago

    Ice Cream Sandwich, Martincitopants and NakeyJakey have me going back after sponsorblock skips it, it’s just so entertaining i’ll take the ad at this point

    • TheFriar@lemm.ee
      2·
      6 months ago

      Danny Gonzalez definitely makes them pretty good too. But I feel like the original ones to make ads entertaining were MBMBAM in the early years. Griffin’s songs, their stupid ass bits? The money zone had me cracking the fuck up. That takes something special for me.

      • TheRealKuni@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        Seriously, I still think about the stack soap song.

        Modern money zone isn’t nearly as good, but I still don’t skip it.

        • TheFriar@lemm.ee
          0·
          6 months ago

          I’ve been going back through early MBMBAM lately. Goddamn, it was pretty much peak podcasting. I stand by that. Early-mid harmontown, early-mid MBMBAM, maybe the first two seasons of My Dad Wrote a Porno, and maybe the first few seasons of Slow Burn. The best podcasts have to offer, I think.

    • skulblaka@startrek.website
      2·
      6 months ago

      I do this for tomatoanus skits as well, those are usually pretty off the wall. My man has an entire storyline saga going on in his ad read sections.

  • Turious@leaf.danceEnglish
    9·
    6 months ago

    Big Money Salvia on Internet Comment Etiquette makes full on short films for his ad reads. They are pretty great.

  • FIST_FILLET@lemmy.ml
    7·
    6 months ago

    this is Drew Gooden and The Yard for me. i have whitelisted them on sponsorblock because their ad reads are so fucking funny. also obligatory shoutout to Internet Comment Etiquette

  • Epzillon@lemmy.ml
    7·
    6 months ago

    I whitelist tomatoanus in sponsorblock just to follow his ad-read lore. Thats peak advertising.

      • skulblaka@startrek.website
        111·
        6 months ago

        Yeah I was really bummed to find this out along with all the nazi signposting that slipped past me because I couldn’t hear the dog whistle, he might be the only creator I’ve ever actually gone and unsubscribed to. Shame, too, because some of those videos were actually really good, credit where it’s due (even if that credit isn’t due to IH himself).